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Post by joono on Apr 14, 2018 2:26:49 GMT
Yes Deb. Just like they did with weapons of mass destruction.
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Post by maggiemay on Apr 14, 2018 3:40:47 GMT
the posters on DHS are delirious with joy
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Post by pennybanger on Apr 14, 2018 3:40:57 GMT
Its too little too late - if they wanted Assad out they should have assisted the rebels right at the beginning when they were winning rather than wait fr ISIS and all the other Jihadi factions to get involved. As it is we are back to the Cold War - with the World Powers using other peoples countries as battlefields to test their strength against each other - think Korea and Vietnam.
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Post by avatarcat on Apr 14, 2018 3:52:32 GMT
Exactly, Penny.
Its just an excuse for appendage measuring and an opportunity to play with weapons. These governments are not doing this because of the Syrian people. If they cared about the Syrian people, all would be given refuge and none would end up in refugee camps/centres. Its just a power and ego game. Nothing more.
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Post by pennybanger on Apr 14, 2018 3:56:18 GMT
Spot on, Ava. That's pretty much what I've just said on the 'Syria Gets Theirs' thread.
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Post by deb on Apr 17, 2018 23:41:06 GMT
In new audio recordings submitted as evidence to U.K. committee, SCL ceo Nigel Oakes (parent company of Cambridge Analytica) compares Trump rhetoric to Hitler’s. www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/Dr%20Emma%20Briant%20Audio%20File%20Transcripts%20with%20links.pdfNigel Oakes: And often, as you rightly say, it’s the things that resonate, sometimes to attack the other group and know that you are going to lose them is going to reinforce and resonate your group. Which is why, you know, Hitler, got to be very careful about saying so, must never probably say this, off the record, but of course Hitler attacked the Jews, because... He didn’t have a problem with the Jews at all, but the people didn’t like the Jews. So if the people… He could just use them to say… So he just leverage an artificial enemy. Well that’s exactly what Trump did. He leveraged a Muslim- I mean, you know, it’s- It was a real enemy. ISIS is a real, but how big a threat is ISIS really to America? Really, I mean, we are still talking about 9/11, well 9/11 is a long time ago  |
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Post by pennybanger on Apr 18, 2018 5:11:05 GMT
The really scary thing is, you only have to read the Roundup politics board to see how well the propaganda works - how easy it is to manipulate people into mindless "Them and Us" hatred.
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Post by deb on Apr 18, 2018 5:22:32 GMT
yes. I know Penny... that they're usng "Hilter" propaganda tactics and it's working, scares the hell out of me
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Post by maggiemay on Apr 18, 2018 5:46:19 GMT
heard an article on election comedy in the us, they played some grabs, so funny, but the journo here who was commenting said that australian pollies have at last realised that comedy in electioneering works, so expect some here next time...i think we are too dumb to write good copy...
election here before christmas probably
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Post by deb on Apr 18, 2018 5:53:43 GMT
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Post by maggiemay on Apr 19, 2018 3:50:14 GMT
leigh sales i/view with comey is on tonight, should be interesting
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Post by dawn on Apr 24, 2018 4:05:51 GMT
This moment in history~
On Sunday it became legal in my state to purchase wine on a Sunday!
In January 2019 it will be legal to purchase wine on a Sunday at... a grocery store!
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Post by dawn on Apr 24, 2018 4:19:05 GMT
When I moved here, liquor and wine were forbidden any day of the week.
You would have to go to another county to make a purchase.
But beer- beer is/was special- it could be purchased from 6am to 11pm Monday through Saturday. On Sunday it was something like 11am til 7pm. Available at gas stations and grocery stores.
Unless you're at the interstate. Beer can be purchased 24/7 if the store is next to the interstate.
Then the law was changed that liquor and wine could be sold at a liquor store. But no food could be sold at the store, not even those tiny chocolates shaped like a bottle with liquor inside. Purchase hours were 9am to 10 pm, except Friday and Saturday- extended to 11pm.
And then....
Okay my point about all these silly laws- the madness of it-
You can get just as drunk off beer as you can with any other alcohol. And who can stop someone from buying alcohol on Saturday but drinking it on Sunday?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 18:46:05 GMT
at present you can still buy only 3.2 beer in grocery/convenience stores, but that changes next year. frankly, i'm not at all pleased about full strength beer, wine and liquor being so readily accessable for theft by minors. and i LIKE 3.2 beer! i don't drink it for the buzz, i just like the taste, you know? but all the beer companies are saying they won't make regular beer in the low alcohol version anymore...and i don't much like expensive beers, i'm a cheapskate, lol!
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Post by joono on Apr 25, 2018 0:12:41 GMT
We can't buy alcohol in supermarkets here in WA. I've seen it being advertised in Aldi leaflets but it's not sold in the one near me.
I can remember when you couldn't buy meat in a supermarket on the weekend when we first came to Australia, and Sunday trading in Perth hasn't been around for that long either. Shops were shut on Sundays and public holidays.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 18:28:17 GMT
my hometown was like perth until i was in my teens, joono, everything except bars and restaurants closed on sunday. and you couldn't buy meat on friday until i was 11!
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Post by pennybanger on Apr 26, 2018 2:51:53 GMT
Wow, that is really taking things to extremes, Sin.  Was that usual in America in those days or was your home town somewhere in the 'Bible Belt? Though Mr Penny has told me that many years ago, in his motorcycling days, whilst in Bathurst with his club for the Easter races, he got some very odd looks in a cafe for ordering a mixed grill on good Friday. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2018 18:36:18 GMT
no, i grew in massachusetts in a VERY catholic town. there was a nunnery down the street from my house, and the main church was too. then there were about 15 small churches scattered around the area, all catholic. we had 2 baptist churches, one episcopalian church, and there was a jewish temple and a mosque the next town over.
the catholic diocese was a huge influence back then.. they had a lot of behind the scenes political pull since they had so much money.
my momma grew up in the bible belt as a lutheran, she had quite a struggle getting used to middleboro from what she told me. i live in the bible belt now, but things are alot different now.
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Post by deb on Apr 26, 2018 23:06:04 GMT
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Apr 27, 2018 0:41:20 GMT
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Post by deb on Apr 27, 2018 2:37:16 GMT
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Post by maggiemay on Apr 27, 2018 4:10:33 GMT
am listening to that, Deb, so far he has called Macron...Emmanuelle...a female version of the name, that was deliberate imo
appalling comments, speaking and ranting like a TV star that he thinks he is and not like a POTUS....he bases his popularity on what "celebrities" say, zero class and less than zero dignity
frankly, that was embarrassing and cringeworthy, and i don't live there
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Post by pennybanger on Apr 27, 2018 4:29:37 GMT
He appears to be coming apart at the seams - which would be funny if it were not so scary.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2018 4:45:50 GMT
exactly. it's EXTREMELY scary. this maniac has the power to start the next world war.
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Post by dawn on Apr 27, 2018 9:33:38 GMT
Whenever I see his face I picture Martin Sheen holding the baby as a shield in The Dead Zone.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2018 19:03:07 GMT
that is a REALLY good analogy, you're right, he does.
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Post by maggiemay on Apr 28, 2018 2:00:02 GMT
can't find where someone posted about the ex-cop in the us, but he is pulling an Alan Bond going to court, "wheelchair bound" with a pretendy senile "can't understand anything" face....hope they take no notice of that
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Post by joono on Apr 28, 2018 2:13:26 GMT
That's exactly what I thought when I saw that photo Maggie. What's a senile old man in a wheelchair doing with two cars a boat and a motorbike.
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Post by deb on Apr 28, 2018 2:14:08 GMT
how does a man like that get into the police force?? that's what I want to know
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Post by dawn on Apr 28, 2018 2:25:05 GMT
There are bad cops.
There are a LOT of cops.
The American population is huge.
I'm not saying they are all bad (fly conspiracy), and a serial killer is probably rare.
I studied his pictures from the earlier years. I don't recognize him at all.
He probably kept a low profile.
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